A native New Yorker with roots in Brooklyn, Jerome Preisler is a prolific author who has written almost thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including all eight novels in the #1 New York Times best-selling TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS series. POWER PLAYS has been published in multiple languages and sold millions of copies in the U.S. and overseas.

Jerome's latest work of narrative nonfiction ALL HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion, will be a major hardcover release from Simon and Schuster in April, 2008.

With his wife, Suzanne, Jerome is the pseudonymous co-author of three comedic mysteries, SCENE OF THE GRIME and the forthcoming (July '08) DIRTY DEEDS and NOTORIOUSLY NEAT from New American Library. His original novel CSI: NEVADA ROSE, based in the hit TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will be released by Pocket Books in June '08.

Jerome is also the co-author of INFOSURFING THROUGH THE NET and THE INTERNET SITE FINDER, two of the earliest published mass market guides to the Internet.

In 2005, Jerome launched his baseball column JEROME PREISLER'S DEEP IN THE RED for the Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network's official website, YESNetwork.com. It quickly became one of the most popular features on the site and a source of continuing irritation to Boston Red Sox fans. The most watched regional sports network in the country, YES reaches a nationwide audience numbering in the millions via cable and DirecTV.

Jerome and Suzanne divide their time between New York City and coastal New England.

From the New York Times:
Cheering Section
Writing the Book on Hating the Sox
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Published: May 13, 2007

Jerome from Maine is a Yankees fan.

"I really detest the Red Sox," he said. "But at the same time, I have a healthy respect for them."

The phone line began to burn slowly.

"Yankee fans view the Red Sox as an obstacle to get past on our way to winning the World Series," he said. "I think Red Sox fans are just content to beat the Yankees, and if they could, they would beat us 162 times a year. I think their hatred for the Yankees is greater than their love for the Red Sox."

When Jerome Preisler is not listening to sports-talk radio in New York, where he lives half the year, or to a station in Boston, he keeps busy writing. He is the author of the best-selling Tom Clancy's Power Plays" series published by Berkley Books.

Preisler, who grew up in Brooklyn, has written more than 20 thrillers, but one of his biggest thrills, he said, is writing a biweekly column, "Deep in the Red," for YesNetwork.com the Web site of the Yankees' cable network.

"What I do in my column is basically express what all other Yankee fans would like to express," Preisler said. "We know that Boston's hatred for the Yankees is genuine, and a big part of that comes from losing to us all of those years, combined with a Calvinistic New England outlook."

Preisler adopted the Yankees in the early 1980s, when he worked at a record store in Times Square. A Knicks fan at the time, Preisler was surrounded by co-workers who were diehard Yankees fans.

They often went as a group to sit in the Yankee Stadium bleachers in the summer of 1981, the year the Yankees advanced to the World Series but lost to the Dodgers.

"Ray really knew the game, and he would always point out all the little nuances," Preisler recalled, referring to a colleague. "I suddenly began to get this game that I didn't get as a younger kid - and I got pulled in."

Preisler began to appreciate Yankees-Red Sox more than any other rivalry, and he has not changed his pinstripes since becoming a prolific author.

He still listens to sports-talk radio, still talks baseball with fellow authors, still combs baseball Web sites and still enters chat rooms to discuss, debate and defend Yankee honor. He realizes that some of the Yankees' harshest critics are his New England neighbors.

"At least twice I've walked my dog near my home in Maine while wearing my Yankees cap, and cars have run me off the road," Preisler said. "It's gotten that bad."

During the 2003 season, Preisler began firing off e-mail messages to Ian Browne, who covers the Red Sox for MLB.com.

"He was always making excuses for the Red Sox," Preisler said. If Pedro Martinez gave up three home runs, he would say that the wind was blowing out of Fenway, stuff like that, so I started needling the Red Sox."

Browne recalled Preisler's "passionate and biting e-mails."

"I knew Jerome had a good grasp of Yankees history, but I didn't know until now that he was this big-time author," Browne said last week. "That explains the unique, colorful way in which he always expressed his viewpoints, but more importantly, it speaks volumes about the fact that there is a fan inside all of us."

By the start of the 2005 season, Preisler, still smarting from Boston's improbable triumph over the Yankees in the American League Championship Series and subsequent World Series victory, searched for a soap box to call his own. On YesNetwork.com, he takes aim at some of Boston's best players, including Curt Schilling and Manny Ramirez.

"I never liked Schilling because he has a big mouth, he's conceited and he's arrogant," Preisler said in a telephone interview. "To me, that whole bloody-sock thing during the 2004 series with the Yankees was just a big publicity stunt."

Jerome from Maine was just getting started.

"And all this 'Manny being Manny' stuff is not very funny," he said. "When Manny Ramírez decides he's not going to play or he's not going to run out a ball or he's going to urinate behind the outfield wall, well, that's not good for the game of baseball, so I've never been a big fan of his."

Preisler, who just finished a book about the U.S.S. Scorpion, a nuclear submarine that sank under mysterious circumstances off the coast of Portugal in 1968, said he would continue to try to sink the Red Sox.

"My column is an extension of how Yankee fans think," he said. "And as a Yankee fan, you have to hate the Red Sox."

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